Quote - I think what gets most people upset is that the vendors are using a character that is primarily targeted to the DAZ user.

That's not neccesarily true. Those who started with 3D content (in Poser fashion) at a much later time than some of us might be under that impression though and I can understand that. DAZ Studio itself, however, is still in it's infancy. Hence DAZ pushing it more aggressively on their site. The push itself is not necessarily in an effort to push Poser off a cliff. It is more of a marketing ploy (and a good one to be honest). Offer it free as an entry level program, get people hooked and reel in content customers. The same applies to when they give away free figures such as V3, Aiko 3, V4 etc.. etc... I mean if you download the base figure for free, you are probably gonna need some morhs and clothing etc etc eventually, right? But those things aren't free... hooked. LOL.

The freebies also have another purpose.. they spawn new content from independent merchants such as myself. This, in turn, nurtures the symbiotic relationship between DAZ and content vendors, even if they aren't DAZ vendors.

At one time, DAZ content was exclusively directed at Poser and for a very very long time (much longer than it has been directed at D|S...obviously due to D|S being fairly new to the scene). And even up until recently (and maybe still) the majority of DAZ products were produced following the same conventions as Poser, not D|S. For example, 3rd generation Millenium figures follow the Poser file convention and the same "runtime" hierarchy. Just take a look at them and you'll see.

The majority of content creators, such as myself, still build primarily for Poser (maybe within Poser is probably a better way to put it) . Poser makes content creation much more streamlined although it is still a lot of work.

The majority of content is still primarily Poser content and will be for a long time to come. However, many of us do try to accomodate the best we can and with what time we have. Recently I have updated some of my older products to be compatible with Poser versions 5 thru 7 (they were originally created for P4) and have also tested them in D|S. My recent update to one of my popular products, VISIONS Props Pak (released in 2004 for P4), included many such changes.